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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400460051-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: CABLE

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NIGHT LEAD PLANE CRASH (400)
RIGGINS, IDAHO, SEPT. 24 (AP)-THE BODIES OF FIVE MEN--INCLUDING
ORGE SKAKEL JR., BROTHER OF MRS. ROBE F. KENNEDY--WERE TAKEN
DAY FROM THE WRECKAGE OF A PLANE WHIG CRASHED IN THE CENTRAL
AHO PRIMITIVE AREA.
THE FIVES MEMBERS OF A 20-MAN ELK HUNTING PARTY, ALSO INCLUDED
AN F. MARKHAM OF MCLEAN, VA.,'A.CLOSE FRIEND OF SEN. ROBERT F.
NNEDY, D-NY.
THE OTHERS KILLED WERE LOUIS WERNER II9 AN INVESTOR AND MEMBER
F A PROMINENT ST.LOUIS FAMILY; EARL RANFT, PRESIDENT OF THE DABAR
ULAGE CO., 9!
F A PROMINENT ST.LOUIS FAMILY; FARL'RANFT, PRESIDENT OF THE DABAR
ULAGE CO., OF BAYONNE, N.J., AND THE PILOT, DONALD ADAMS, OF
IOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE IN IDAHO.
SKAKEL, OF GREENWICH, CONN. 1WAS PRESIDENT OF THE GREAT LAKES
ARBON CORP. OF NEW YORK, WHICH HAS HOLDINGS IN SOUTHWEST IDAHO.
ARICHAM WAS IN CHARGE OF GREAT LAKES' WASHINGTON OFFICE.
THE FIVE WERE KILLED LATE YESTERDAY WHEN THEIR- PLANE, LOADED WITH
UNTING GEAR, OVERSHOT AN AIRSTRIP DEEP IN THE SALMON RIVER
ORGE 40 MILES EAST OF R IGG IRIS. IDAHO AERONAUTICS DIRECTOR CHET
IOULTON SAID THE PILOT APPARENTLY TRIED TO MAKE A CLIMBING TURN SIN .A
rEEP CANYON.
THE FIVE WERE IN ONE OF- SEVERAL PLANES CARRYING THE HUNTING
ARTY FROM SEVERAL EASTERN STATES AND CALIFORNIA INTO THE SHEPP.
UEST RANCH OFF THE SALMON RIVER, NEAR .CROOKED RIVER.
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THE BODIES WERE TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO AN AIRSTRIP DOWNSTREAM
HERE AN AMBULANCE WAITED TO RETURN THEM TO BOISE. A GREAT LAKES
ARBON CORP. PLANE THAT BROUGHT MANY OF T FE PARTY TO BOISE FROM
LW YORK CITY YESTERDAY WAS TO.RETURN THE BODIES TO THE EAST.
SEN. KENNEDY CANCELED A WEEKEND POLITICAL TOUR IN NEW ENGLAND
ECAUSE OF THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, MARKHAM
SERVED ON THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL FITNESS AND AS_'.
XECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PRESIDENT'.S ADVISORY COMMISSION. ON'
11ARCOTICS AND DRUG ABUSE.
WERNER WAS ON THE BOARD OF MERCANTILE TRUSTS LARGE ST.LOUIS'
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THE CRASH WAS IN THE SAME PRIMITIVE AREA, BUT ABOUT 50 MILES TO
HE WEST, OF THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE SALMON RIVER 9 WHERE THE ROBERT
KENNEDY FAMILY VACATIONED THIS SUMMER.
THE PARENTS OF ETHEL KENNEDY AND GEORGE SKAKEL WERE KILLED IN -
N AIRPLANE CRASH IN OKLAHOMA IN 1955.
TWO MEMBERS OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY ALSO DIED IN AIR ACCIDENTS.
POTHER, SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, D-MASS. , SUFFERED A FRACTURED
)PINE IN A LIGHT PLANE CRASH IN MASSACHUSETTS IN JUNE 196:.
HIS OLDEST BROTHER,' NAVY LT. JOSEPH,P. KENNEDY JR., 29, WAS
OST ON A WARTIME BOMBING MISSION FROM ENGLAND IN 1944. FOUR
'EArS LATER HIS SISTER KATHLEEN WAS KILLED IN A FRENCH rLANE CRASH
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